Taking place on eight race courses encountered in the Grand Prix Cups, Battle Mode places twelve racers on track, either in teams or in one big free-for-all. Your goal is to pop the three balloons on every racer that isn’t on your team, using items, the course terrain, or just straight up ramming your enemies as hard as possible to steal their balloons. You can drive anywhere on any of these courses, in any direction. Use that to your advantage to set up ambushes on your rivals.
The concept is very simple, but actually getting it done is quite the challenge. As with other game modes, Battle Mode can be played offline with up to four players on one Wii U, or online with twelve players.
Battle Mode Settings
Before a match begins, you have the ability to change the rules of the battlefield. The settings you can adjust are listed here.
- Teams or No Teams
- Items: All Items, Shells Only, Bananas Only, Mushrooms Only, Bob-ombs Only, and Frantic Mode
- Time Limit: 1 to 5 Minutes
- COM (COM Racer Difficulty): Easy, Normal, Hard
- COM Vehicles: All Vehicles, Karts Only, Bikes Only
- Courses: Choose, In Order, Random
- Round Count: 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 16, or 32 battles